Cole v. State

STEELE, Chief Justice:

Pursuant to an agreement he thought he had with the State, the defendant-appellant, Donald Cole, made a statement to the police and prosecutor implicating one of his accomplices to a crime. The police confronted the accomplice with Cole’s statement. Cole believed that the agreement he had reached before making his statement prohibited the State from using the statement for any purpose other than determining whether the State would seek the death penalty. On the basis of the alleged agreement, as he claims to have understood it, Cole moved to suppress all evidence…